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TRAVEL
Definition of TRAVEL
verb
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRAVEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TRAVEL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TRAVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found TRAVEL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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